Maps

"A New Map of the North Parts of America Claimed by France Under ye Names of Louisiana, Mississippi, Canada and New France with ye Adjoyning Territories of England and Spain" by Herman Moll

By Herman Moll, 1720, 25.5x41.5". This large scale map of North America, one of four of the region by Herman Moll, distinguished him as the leading English mapmaker of the early 18th century. Originally published in 1718, it is one of the most accurate English maps of the time, and was based in part on Delisle's 1718 map of the Mississippi Valley. Moll enlarges Delisles' map, and disputes the French claims in America; he does so by color-coding the claims of England (yellow), France (blue/green) and Spain (red), and thereby "re-claims" English land east of the Mississippi and Spanish land in parts of Florida. A dotted line along the Allegheny Mountains and the boundaries of Carolina show the French interpretation of those evolving, and disputed, boundaries. Moll warns English "noblemen, gentlemen, and merchants" interested in Carolina to note these French "encroachments" into English and allied Indian land, and urges them to preserve "old friendships" with the tribes. These disputed land claims eventually led to the French and Indian War. On the west coast, California is depicted as an island and much of the west is labeled as "Parts Unknown." This was a common misconception in mid17th to early 18th century cartography. However the Southeast contains much more information, much go which could not be found on any other printed map of the time. Much of this data (trading paths, settlements, rivers and other topographical data, Indian tribes, and English, French, and Spanish forts) was supposedly gathered from a "large, unsigned, undated manuscript map in the Public Record Office." Recent English surveys by Richard Berresfor and Capt. Thomas Naime were also used. Moll was best at coastal geography, which can be seen in his mapping of the coastal features of Texas and Mexico, the barrier islands, and the identified rivers that empty into the Gulf of Mexico.

By Herman Moll, 1719, 47.8x27.7". One of the largest world maps ever made for an atlas, Moll's map depicts the world on Mercator's projection. This spectacular map includes recent discoveries, highly detailed hydrological information, insets of advertisements and geographical regions, and includes the tracks of several prominent explorers. In the West, California is depicted as an island, and much of western North America is conjectural. Recent discoveries in the South Pacific and around northern Japan are displayed, while the east coast of Australia, or New Holland, is shown connected to N. Guinea. Highly detailed hydrological information of the oceans within the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are shown, such as the direction of ocean currents, trade winds, and monsoons. The tracks of famous explorers Henry Hudson, Thomas James, Willem Barents, and Woodes Rogers can be seen traced throughout the map. A large circular inset (lower left) depicts the North Pole and notes where a possible Northwest (or Northeast) Passage was thought to soon be found. An additional inset (upper left) is a miniature world map that depicts the degrees of magnetic variation in compasses in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The title cartouche seen above this inset was designed by Louis Cheron and features allegorical depictions of Christianity and paganism, as well as male reproductions of the continents. This is unusual for such representations featured female personifications. Here Europe is a knight, Asia is a Turkish soldier, America and Africa are native warriors, and Britain is a "resting, but watchful, lion." A second, smaller cartouche in the bottom center of the map contains the map's title. This map also contains notes and annotations from Moll himself, such as an advertisement for his next set of maps, and a warning to his clients to avoid the "inferior" works of competing cartographers, such as Moses Pitt.

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"Map of the Untied States of North America, Upper & Lower Canada New Brunswick, Nova Scotia & British Columbia. Mexico Cuba, Jamaica, St. Domingo and the Bahama Islands" by Theodor Ettling

By Thomas Ettling, 1861, 37.4x25.9". An interesting map given to subscribers in the June 1st, 1861 issue of the Illustrated London News that illustrates the division of the outbreak of the Civil War. Color coded to show the division between the Union and Confederates, with the border states of Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland denoted as part of the South. Several western states are shown with their early or proposed boundaries, such as the proposed Arizona Territory south of New Mexico, Washington and Oregon's eastern boundaries in the Rocky Mountains, and Nevada's proposed boundary with Utah. The southern part of Mexico can be seen in an inset in the bottom left corner. In lines, and other lines of communication (including wagon roads). The proposed railways also include the number of miles each was intended to span.

Guillaume Delisle (1675-1725), ca. 1718.
This second state map is extremely rare, and is the first map to show New Orleans, and mention the name “Texas”. This map has been called one of the most imporant maps “politically, geographically, and historically... of the Mississippi Valley. Repeatedly copied and widely referenced, it was the chief authority for the Mississippi river for more than fifty years.” Experts have also called it “the mother and main source of all the later maps of the Mississippi.”

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America.ca 1755-G.Bailleul

Gaspar Bailleul, ca. 1752. Hand colored, 39.1x30.5 inches.
Extremely rare French Wall map of the Western Hemisphere by Gaspar Bailleul, surrounded by 30 vignettes illustrating scenes from European discovery and colonization.
Published in Lyon by Daudet, the map provides a fantastic look at the Northwest Coast of America, including a massive early appearance of the mythical Sea of the West, as well as an even more remarkable "Presque Isle de Nord Oest" (Peninsula of the Northwest) and an extensive set of annotations discussing early searches for the northwest passage and possible routes from the Pacific to the Mer Glaciale (Arctic Sea).
The map also provides the tracks of a number of early explorers and circumnavigators.
Perhaps the most remarkable of all information on the map is the massive Indes Meridionales (Southern Indies), "Decouverte par le Sr. Binot Paulmier en 1503." This is a reference to the widely held belief that Binot Paulmier, Sieur de Gonneville, a French Sea Captain of the early 16th century, was generally believed to have discovered "Terra Australis," the so-called unknown southern continent, by most French Geographers and historians in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Bailleul's map provides one of the largest and most ambitious depictions of Paulmier's remarkable early contact with the New World.
In 1503, Paulmier, sailed from Honfleur in Normandy with his crew and the help of two Portuguese pilots, heading for the East Indies. When he reached the Cape of Good Hope his ship L'Espoir was diverted to an unknown land by a storm. In 1505, he returned claiming to have discovered the "great Austral land," which he also called the "Indies Meridionale."
Paulmier reported that his crew had remained for six months in this southern land, where the inhabitants didn't have to work because of the riches. Paulmier reported that his Indes Meridionales was six weeks' sail east of the Cape of Good Hope.
Paulmier's report of Indes Meridionales was not widely known or considered until 1663, when Jean Paulmier de Courtonne, Canon of the Church of Saint-Pierre at Lisieux, a relative of de Gonneville's, published a book called Memoirs Concerning the Establishment of a Christian Mission in the Austral Land, in which he claimed to be the great-grandson of an "Indian" brought back to France by the 1503 Paulmier expedition.
De Courtonne's claims were given serious study in France for more than 100 years and offered the French claims to new lands first discovered in the southern hemisphere, giving rise to French expeditions such as those of Bouvet and Bougainville.
In fact, Paulmier had made landfall along the coast of Brasil on and around the island of Santa Catarina, and that the inhabitants he encountered, one of whom, Iça-Mirim was taken back to France and married Paulmier's daughter, were Carijo Indians.

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A Map of the most Inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole Province of Maryland.. Drawn by Joshua Fry & Peter Jefferson in 1775.SOLD

Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, ca. 1775. Hand colored, 49x31 inches.
A nice example of the 1775 edition of Fry & Jefferson’s map of Virginia and Maryland, widely regarded as the most important and influential 18th century map of Virginia and Maryland.
Originally prepared by Joshua Fry of William & Mary and Peter Jefferson (father of President Thomas Jefferson), at the request of Lord Halifax in 1751, the Fry-Jefferson was a monumental leap forward in the mapping of the region. It is the first map to accurately depict the Blue Ridge Mountains and the first to lay down the colonial road system of Virginia. A great number of plantations are located and include the family names of the Virginia plantation owners of the period. The cartouche, showing a tobacco warehouse and wharf, is one of the earliest printed images of the Virginia tobacco trade.
One of the first actions of Lord Halifax upon becoming president of the Board of Trade and Plantations in 1748, was to request information concerning activities in the Frontiers and of potential French encroachments on the British territorial claims. In 1750, the Board required that each colony conduct a comprehensive survey. The acting Governor of Virginia, Col. Lewis Burwell commissioned Fry & Jefferson to prepare a map of the Virginia colony.
Joshua Fry, a mathematician at the College of William and Mary, and Peter Jefferson, a surveyor (father of Thomas Jefferson), had together previously drawn the boundaries of Lord Fairfax's lands in 1746 and surveyed the Virginia-North Carolina boundary in 1749. First issued in 1751, the map incorporates the original surveys of Fry & Jefferson with existing data. A major revision in 1755 incorporated important information about the western part of the colony from the journals of John Dalrymple and Christopher Gist, the latter of whom is credited in the upper left part of the map with having contributed to the revisions. It is the 1755 edition that forms the basis for the subsequent editions.
The map is known in 8 editions. The first four states are so rare as to be virtually unobtainable. The present example is state 6, which includes the updated 1775 date but is otherwise identical to the 1768 edition, the first obtainable state.

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City of Washington: From Beyond the Navy Yard

By George Cook, 1834. Aquatint Engraving.
One of the great views of the Nation's Capital. Washington is shown from the south bank of the Anacostia River. On the right is the Washington Navy Yard, est. 1799, behind is the original Capitol Building and to the left is the White House. The painter of this view is George Cooke. He and the engraver, William Bennett, teamed up to produce four folio-size views of American cities. This very rare print is in good condition, with its original color. A brother print is also at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, however it is currently not on display to the public.

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Map of the Kingdom of Irland, Devided into Severall Provinces, and then Againe Devided into Counties. Newly Described.

Nicholas de Fer, ca. 1705. Hand colored, mounted on linen.
An extremely rare Dutch wall map of the world. “The map is an ornamental masterpiece, issued by Nicholas de Fer to celebrate the success of the Paris Observatory and the Royal Academy in observing the movement of the planets”- Shirley. The surrounding decoration was designed and engraved by Nicolas Guerard, and the surrounding panels of text are dated 1708. Dating the map is complicated, as it was originally issued in 1694 without accompanying text (only three known examples of the first edition are cited by Shirley), and then reprinted in 1705 with the side panels of text. Later editions were issued in 1717, 1720, 1730, and 1737. The editions of 1730 and 1737 were not issued by de Fer at all, but by his son-in-law, Guillaume Danet. The accompanying text panels which surround the map are also dated separately, usually with a different date than that on the map itself. Shirley gives this map his highest rarity rating of “RRR”, and notes that the majority of the known examples of this map are dated 1717 and later, making this one of the earlier known issues.

Gilles Robert De Vaugondy, ca. 1778. Hand colored, 25x19 inches.
This handsome map is the French edition of the Fry-Jefferson map - one of the most important 18th century maps of the region. Due to the rarity and high value of the four-sheet English version of the Fry-Jefferson map, the first state of the single-sheet French version is the earliest obtainable map to accurately depict the interior of Virginia beyond the Tidewater, and is an essential map for the Virginia map collection. This is the most desirable first state with the Limites du Lord Fairfax delineating the Fairfax Grant in Virginia’s Northern Neck and the vast region northwest of it. The signature of the engraver, Elisabeth Haussard, is below the cartouche.
The map details the coastline from Cape May in New Jersey to the Currituck Inlet and inland with finely engraved details of the interior regions of Virginia, the ridges, rivers and valleys of the Appalachians, and the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. The locations of native villages and wagon roads are noted as well. Delaware is labeled as De La War Counties. While the title is in French, most of the information is in English.
Surveyor Peter Jefferson was Thomas Jefferson's father, and Joshua Fry was a commander in the colonial militia during the French and Indian War. They were ideal appointees for the project as they had accumulated a substantial amount of information from their work on the western frontier. Their knowledge, along with reports received from other explorers, produced the most detailed account of the inhabited parts of the colonies.
Fine original outline color, a sharp impression, and wide original margins. There is very faint offsetting in the image and a bit of light foxing in blank margins, still overall near fine condition.

Marshall, ca. 1805, 15x9.8 inches.
This Dutch version of a detailed Revolutionary War map covers the field of operations in 1776 and 1777, and covers the positions of the English and American forces. Centered on Philadelphia, this map also includes Princeton, Wilmington, and Burlington, and the Rariton River (now New Brunswick) in New Jersey to Elk Head (now Elkton) in Maryland. It depicts army positions, forts, roads, towns, and taverns in great detail. The title translates to “Map Country Rariton River in eastern Jersey, to Elk Head in Maryland ...”

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Carte de l

Henry Abraham Chatelain, ca. 1708, 17.6x13.2 inches.
Two maps representing regions in Central Europe, flanked by two engravings representing the religious rites of the ancient German peoples and French text. The upper map includes part of Scandinavia, while the larger bottom map depicts various states in the area, including Holland, Poland, part of Lithuania, and south to the course of the Danube River. Both maps detail forests and mountains, ancient place names, cities, and countries, and are decorated with a compass rose apiece.

America, ca.1540-72. Sebastian Munster. SOLD

ca. 1540. Sebastian Munster, who was to become one of the most influential cartographers in the sixteenth century, published his edition of Ptolemy's Geography with a further section of modern, more up to date maps. He included for the first time a set of continental maps, the America was the earliest of any note. The map's inclusion in Münsters Cosmography, first published in 1544, sealed the fate of "America" as the name for the New World.
The Portuguese flag is shown flying over the South Atlantic and the Spanish one over her possessions in the Caribbean. The Strait of Magellan are named again, and Mare pacificum appears for the first time on a printed maps. Magellan's ship Victoria, the only survivor of five vessels, appears in the middle of this ocean. Marco Polo's influence can be seen with Zipangri (Japan) appearing three years before the earliest known contact with Europeans, and also his Archipelagus 7448 insularu. The Yucatan is still shown as an island and the lake at Temistitan is depicted emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.
North America is not shown as accurately as the southern half of the continent, it had to a large extent been neglected so far by explorers. When Giovanni di Verrazzano, in the service of Francis I of France, passed by the Outer Banks of the Carolinas in 1524 he mistook Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds for the 'Oriental Sea' that led to Cathay and the rich Spice Islands. Here Münster perpetuates this error and through the success of this book provided a huge impetus to the exploration of the region. The only placenames occuring here are C.Britonum, marking England's early explorations, Corterati, probably Newfoundland after the Corte Reals, and Terra florida. FRANCISCA is named in honour of Francis I. (Burden)

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Herman Moll. (To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers...This Map of North America according to ye Newest and most Exact observations.)

ca. 1755.
Hermann Moll was, like many an emigré, a zealously patriotic Englishman and cartographical fighter in the globalization contest the European nations conducted from the 15th century into the 20th. Here in one of his superbly characteristic maps of North America, he fights with De L'Isle (the great French mapmaker of the period) about the respective territorial possessions of Britain and France. In contradistinction to De L'Isle's 1718 map, Moll's reduces French Louisiana to a region south of the Ohio River and gives Great Britain Labrador (as New Britain).
The achievement of British dominance would be accomplished through trade, colonialization, war and piracy. Depicting one aspect of British success, Moll includes here a rather detailed depiction of the codfishing industry, including the making of cod liver oil. Throughout the 17th century, the British had the greatest number of fishing boats in the Grand Banks. Dried codfish was a staple of the British Navy, and a favorite throughout Europe. -
One of Moll's impressive, very large maps issued at the beginning of the eighteenth century. This map shows North America as it was known at the time. Detail of rivers, lakes, cities, and so forth is excellent. The map is quite accurate in parts, but it is for its myriad geographic myths that the map is most interesting. To the north, Moll is quite conservative in showing the long-sought-for Northwest Passage, indicating that Hudson's Bay did not have an opening to the west and only showing the entrance of the postulated Straits of Anian. Moll is not so accurate in the middle part of the continent, where he shows Baron Lahontan's mythical geography of the Long River and the lake and river of the Mozeemleck Indians. Even more prominently Moll shows California as an island, a cartographic error that lasted over 100 years. These geographic features are nicely complimented by the large, decorative cartouches that appear above the ten inset detail maps. The title cartouche is elaborately drawn showing native Indians including an Eskimo family. Below this is an engraved view of a Cod production plant on Newfoundland. An historically and decoratively wonderful map by one of the leading cartographers of his day. This map of North America, with ten small inset plans of ports and harbours. Insular California. Moll's famous "codfish map", so-called for its large and informative cartouche of the cod industry. Dried codfish was the staple diet of the Royal Navy, and the fish itself was popular all over Europe. The British also had the largest fishing boat fleet off the Grand Banks. Moll was a German émigré who settled and lived in London. As a newly patriotic and loyal Englishman, Moll wished to depict codfish as being one of the great commercial success stories of the British colonization of North America. Moll highlights 10 important ports and harbours from Boston to Cartagena and Acapulco. There is also a truly magnificent title cartouche dedicated to Lord Sommers. Moll includes information about the annual Spanish treasure convoys that picked up gold, silver, and gems from their ports in Mexico and Central America. In London, Moll patronised Jonathan's Coffee House, in Cornhill. It was here that City equity traders and speculators would meet and discuss matters of importance and interest. Other patrons included the authors Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, the archaeologist William Stukely, the seafarers William Dampier and William Hacke, the scientist Robert Hooke, and the piratical Woodes Rogers. Thus we can speculate that Moll had access to very privileged knowledge and information - information he could put to excellent use in his maps and charts (Reinhartz, The Cartographer and the Literati: Herman Moll and his Intellectual Circle.)
Elaborate title cartouche with Native Americans on the left; a native chief below, products of the land at his feet; northern natives on the right (Greenland or Newfoundland), harpoons in hand; at the reclining chief's head is a tobacco plant.
Below the cartouche is a composite scene of cod fishing and processing: the annotation describes the scene: A view of a Stage & also of ye manner of Fishing for, Curing & Drying Cod at New Found Land. A. THe Habit of ye Fishermen. B. The Line. C. The manner of fishing. D. The Dressers of ye Fish. E. The Trough into which they throw ye Cod when Dressed. F. Salt Boxes. G. The manner of carrying ye Cod. H. The Cleaning ye Cod. I. A Press to extract ye Oyl from ye Cod Liver. K. Casks to receive ye water & Blood that comes from ye Livers. L. Another Cask to receive the Oyl. M. The manner of drying ye Cod.

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Nova Virginia Tabula, ca 1645. H.Hondius.15X19.5 SOLD

"This is Henricus Hondius' derivative of John Smith's highly important map of Virginia, 1612. It is, however, drawn from his deceased brother Jodocus' version of 1618. The two has led separate careers for at least ten years and in 1629, upon the death of Jodocus, Willem Blaeu acquired a number of plates from the estate. About thirty of these formed the nucleus of Blaeu's Atlantis Appendix of 1630. This challenge to the atlas of Henricus, which was by now quite dated, stimulated fierce competition between the two houses. The sale of plates must have occurred by 2 March 1630 as a contract of that date survives where Henricus Hondius and his partner Joannes Janssonius, angry at the sale of plates to their competitor, engaged engravers to cut a number of new plates after those of Jodocus within eighteen months so that they could advance their own atlas.
The Virginia was one of the first engraved as it appears in Janssonius' Atlantis Appendix of 1630. Attractively engraved it is the only Smith derivative to bear an Indian facing the Chesapeake Bay. After the death of Janssonius in 1664 the business was left to a number of different parties. It could not be divided in such a way that ensured the continued production of the various atlases. In 1694 Petrus Schenk acquired all of the Atlas Major plates at public auction from the heirs of Jansson van Waesberge, and began issuing the maps with his own imprint." (Burden)

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A New Map of the North Parts of America claimed by France under ye Names of Louisiana, Mississippi, Canada and New France with ye Adjoyning Territories of England and Spain.

By Herman Moll, ca. 1720

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Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova

Willem Janszoon Blaeu, ca. 1640.
Based on the manuscript survey by Adrian Block, completed in 1614. The map is oriented with North to the right. This is one of the earliest examples of the United States colonies, concentrating solely on the eastern region, excluding Virginia and the easternmost coast. Lake Champlain appears too far to the east as well. The coastal strip is well detailed with place names, attesting to the Dutch and English interest in the area. This appears to be one of the earliest maps to show Indians paddling their canoes, and Indian settlements and habitations, as well as native birds and animals. The map is a fine example of the superb design and craftsmanship employed by the Blaeus in their work.

“A Chart of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, Compiled and Published by Fielding Lucas Junr.”
Fielding Lucas Jr., Baltimore, ca. 1859.
Engraved by John and William W. Warr, Philadelphia.
The only significant map of the Chesapeake Bay to be issued between the early 19th century Admiralty Charts and the Coast Survey Charts of the 1860s.
A scarce, important, and highly desirable 1852 nautical chart or maritime map of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays by Fielding Lucas Jr. This chart covers the entirety of the Chesapeake Bay from Wrightsville (on the Susquehanna River) and Philadelphia (on the Delaware River) to Cape Henry and Norfolk, Virginia. The chart illustrates inland navigation on the rivers as far upstream as Philadelphia, Port Deposit, Baltimore, Washington, and for considerable distances up the Rappahannock, York and James Rivers. Soundings extend to the numerous large rivers emptying into the Bay. The entrances to both the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays depict shoals and other dangers.
Adding to the chart’s utility are tide tables for both bays, three scale bars for use at different latitudes, and profile views of Cape Henry, Smiths Point Light House, Windmill Point and Cape Henlopen (These views had appeared on Anthony De Mayne’s 1814 Survey of the Chesapeake.) The format, size, calligraphy, profile views and judicious use of color all combine to render this a most attractive chart.
Born in Philadelphia, Fielding Lucas (1781-1854) spent most of his life in Baltimore as a mapmaker, map publisher and bookseller as well as a business and civic leader. During the early part of his career he concentrated on atlas publication, issuing the New and Elegant General Atlas in 1817 and General Atlas in 1823, while contributing 20 maps for Carey and Lea’s Complete Historical Chronological and Geographical Atlas (1822). In later years he concentrated on separately-issued maps of Maryland subjects, most notably major maps of Baltimore (1822) and the State of Maryland (1841), as well as this chart of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays.
This is Fielding Lucas's only published nautical chart - although he did publish other land based maps. Lucas himself was the only Maryland based chartmaker active in the first half of the 19th century and prepared this chart to fill gaping hole in the maritime mapping of the Chesapeake Bay region - between comparatively inaccurate early British Admiralty charts and the planed, but as yet to be realized, work of the U.S. Coast Survey. Lucas first published this map in 1829 with regular updates until the early 1860s - when this chart was superseded by superior Coast Survey material. The map exhibits overall fine engraving and refined craftsmanship and throughout offers impressive attention to detail and accuracy. Lucas' greatest innovation is the incorporation of color - uncommon in nautical charts and a convention that was not embraced by subsequent publishers.

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Cyprus.Ortelius.Circa 1573

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Macedoniae et Thessaliae Regiones

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Peloponnesus nunc Morea. SOLD

Philipp Cluver, ca. 1697 (published). Charming map of the Peloponnesian peninsula, the heart of ancient Greece, with the cities of Sparta, Corinth, Argos and Olympia. An inset plan of Corinth balances the title cartouche featuring Neptune and his entourage. 9.25x12.75" image size.

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The Expedition of Cyrus and the Retreat of the Ten Thousand

By T. Kelly, Sc. Published by Samuel Walker, Boston for Rollin's History (1853). Coasts of Caria, Lycia, Pamphilia, Cilicia, Syria, and Phenicia are colored in gold, with Cyrus' expedition traced in dark red. 11x19".

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Iava Maior

By Hondius/Bertius, ca. 1618 (published). This precisely engraved map shows the northern coastline with numerous place names, but the southern coastline is entirely conjectural. The map is handsomely adorned with two strapwork cartouches and a ship. French text on verso. Publication: Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum. Subject: Java, Indonesia.

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Nova Scotia and Newfoundland

By John Tallis, ca. 1850. Subject: Eastern Canada. A lovely engraved map of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, including parts of New Brunswick and Labrador. The map includes vignettes of Halifax, steam and sailing ships in the Cod Fishery off Newfoundland, and the seals of both provinces. Map drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin, illustrations drawn by A. Fussell and engraved by J. Rogers.
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East Canada and New Brunswick

John Tallis & Company, ca. 1850. Lovely nineteenth century map of the St. Lawrence River and New Brunswick, including Montreal and Quebec. A great vignette depicts Quebec as seen from the river with numerous sailing ships and boats in the foreground and the cliffs and settlement high above. In a second vignette, a group of North American Indians holds a war council. Further embellished with the seal of Great Britain and a decorative border. Map drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin, illustrations drawn by H. Warren and engraved by J.B. Allen.

By Linschoten/Langren, ca. 1596. Engraved. This is a rare and highly decorative map of part of the west coast of the continent of Africa. Fictional place names and mythological creatures are intermingled with actual places and animals, showcasing the complexity and misunderstandings of European attempts to chart this region.

Homann Heirs, 1731. This table lists the distances between major European cities, with a primary focus on cities in Germany. The title cartouche describes how to use the table, explaining how one must use their pointer-fingers to locate where a row and column meet. The explanation also claims that the table "answers 7798 questions" regarding distances between cities. The title cartouche is surrounded by allegorical figures, including Mercury, Athena, putti and cherubs. 21.3x18.1 image size.

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Carte des Parties Nord et Est de l’Asie…

By Johannes van Keulen, ca. 1702.
Among the most scarce and decorative Dutch nautical charts of the American southeast, this maritime map depicts the Virginia, Carolina, Georgia, and Florida coasts. Oriented to the west (with north to the right), this map focuses on the coastline and offers limited inland data, similar to most nautical charts. The cartographer, C. J. Vooght, has based this map on various unpublished and unknown sources; however, the appears to reference the ca. 1590 maps of John White and Jacques Le Moyne for place names in Virginia and Carolina, respectively. Spanish place names are used for several of the capes. The region between Cape Hatteras and the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay features numerous depth soundings.
This map was issued during a colonial power dispute between Spain and England: England had been slowly moving south from their colony in Virginia, and had granted Carolina its official grant in 1663. This expansion allowed the British colonies to more actively trade with the lucrative West Indies colonies, as well as making Charleston the southernmost English settlement. Charleston appears on the west bank of the Ashley River (this map uses the Spanish name, Rio Grande) in both the main map and the inset in the upper right.